Trying to think of a joke here, but really just kinda bummed to hear that the guy who didn't fall in love with the military leadership simply because he was embedded (but, rather, told things as they were) won't be able to write more stories.

Maybe the conspiracy theory crowd will find a way to tie it into Benghaziruguladijonacorngate. Or something.

I'm not given to crazy conspiracy theories, but I've NEVER seen a street crash like that. Freeway crashes, yes, but never a surface street crash. Any of our resident medics know more than me? Cuz that looks like there was an accelerant involved.

My sympathies for his family and all, but Gen McChrystal is a good and honorable man who took a bullet for his subordinates because this (yellow) "journalist" could not differentiate blowing off steam in a pressure cooker environment and real insubordination. Wonder if alcohol was involved in his "accident"....

The General should never have accepted his 4th star - It was a setup for failure all along.

Highland isn't really a "fast" street. I guess at 4:30am there weren't many people on the road, and for whatever reason he decided to drive really farking fast. Getting a Mercedes to throw its engine a half a block down the road, and explode into flames, isn't an easy thing to do.

Highland isn't really a "fast" street. I guess at 4:30am there weren't many people on the road, and for whatever reason he decided to drive really farking fast. Getting a Mercedes to throw its engine a half a block down the road, and explode into flames, isn't an easy thing to do.

Probably granny shiftin not double clutchin like he should. He's lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake.

Highland isn't really a "fast" street. I guess at 4:30am there weren't many people on the road, and for whatever reason he decided to drive really farking fast. Getting a Mercedes to throw its engine a half a block down the road, and explode into flames, isn't an easy thing to do.

Probably granny shiftin not double clutchin like he should. He's lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake.

He's dead. I don't know if there's anyway you can consider him "lucky."

randomjsa:"Train wreck" as in "dared to actually say what a lot of military leaders thought about the Obama administration"

Do you know how I know for a fact that you've never served your country a single day in your life? I'm not going to tell you, but I guarantee you that anybody that's actually served knows how utterly stupid your statement is.

My sympathies for his family and all, but Gen McChrystal is a good and honorable man who took a bullet for his subordinates because this (yellow) "journalist" could not differentiate blowing off steam in a pressure cooker environment and real insubordination. Wonder if alcohol was involved in his "accident"....

The General should never have accepted his 4th star - It was a setup for failure all along.

/ Cannot confirm or deny I worked for him or his command

I'll go ahead and confirm you're absolutely full of shiat and are completely retarded as far as the UCMJ goes.

My sympathies for his family and all, but Gen McChrystal is a good and honorable man who took a bullet for his subordinates because this (yellow) "journalist" could not differentiate blowing off steam in a pressure cooker environment and real insubordination. Wonder if alcohol was involved in his "accident"....

The General should never have accepted his 4th star - It was a setup for failure all along.

/ Cannot confirm or deny I worked for him or his command

I'll go ahead and confirm you're absolutely full of shiat and are completely retarded as far as the UCMJ goes.

StopLurkListen:YoungSwedishBlonde: Iczer: This is going off my memory, but IIRC my mom's 2011 Sonata features breakaway bolts on the engine so it drops when hit in a front-end collision.

This is standard equipment in all modernish cars. Keeps the engine from going through the firewall.

Yup, it's a safety feature. A very good one.

I was in a wreck in '72 that left the engine block where my liver would have been if Mom hadn't installed seat covers that covered the seat belt latches. I bounced me off the steering wheel and into the back seat.

Michael Hastings was young, talented, appeared to give a damn, and called people in power on their bullsh*t in a way that actually changed things. In many ways, he embodied the ideals that many journalists aspire to. I am noting with incredible cynicism how much the hacks who do the least to uphold those ideals are mourning him the hardest on Twitter right now, like the trend-following stenographers they are.

My sympathies for his family and all, but Gen McChrystal is a good and honorable man who took a bullet for his subordinates because this (yellow) "journalist" could not differentiate blowing off steam in a pressure cooker environment and real insubordination. Wonder if alcohol was involved in his "accident"....

The General should never have accepted his 4th star - It was a setup for failure all along.

/ Cannot confirm or deny I worked for him or his command

I dont give a good two craps about who you worked for, but McChrystal is an ass. Well, he was an ass. He might still be. I will make this simple- a general officer does not do her or himself any good at all being critical of the standing CIC, except by her or himself . Period.Citation ? Best one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur

FabulousFreep:Bet there's some celebrating in the McChrystal's house tonight! Drinks all around!

I doubt that. McChrystal isn't the kind of person to be happy someone died in such a horrible way. He of all people knows what it's like to die in a fire. Anyway, it's not like Hastings PERSONALLY got McChrystal fired--that was his own inability to keep his mouth shut (or, alternatively, his blunt honesty, depending on which side of the debate you're on).